3D-printed apparel and 3D-printer: exploring advantages, concerns, and purchases

Perry, Anna

doi:10.1080/17543266.2017.1306118

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“…For providing thermo-physiological comfort, natural textile fibers on cellulosic or protein basis still would be ideal materials [37]. Some researchers try to use wool as printing material [38,39] to overcome the limitation of plastic materials, but in this case the process is related to needle punching of wool yarns for production of 3D forms, and precisely speaking do not present 3D printing using polymer deposition. Because wool and cellulosic fibers have no melting point, their direct use for 3D printing by melting is not possible; only solution based methods could be solution for them.…”

Section: Materials Used For 3d Printingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Additive Manufacturing and Textiles—State-of-the-Art

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The application of additive manufacturing, well known as 3D printing, in textile industry is not more totally new. It allows is giving significant increase of the product variety, production stages reduction, widens the application areas of textiles, customization of design and properties of products according to the type of applications requirement. This paper presents a review of the current state-of-the-art, related to complete process of additive manufacturing. Beginning with the design tools, the classical machinery building computer-aided design (CAD) software, the novel non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) based software and parametric created models are reported. Short overview of the materials demonstrates that in this area few thermoplastic materials become standards and currently a lot of research for the application of new materials is going. Three types of 3D printing, depending on the relation to textiles, are identified and reported from the literature—3D printing on textiles, 3D printing of flexible structures and 3D printing with flexible materials. Several applications with all these methods are reported and finally the main advantages and disadvantages of the 3D printing in relation to textile industry are given.

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Section: Materials Used For 3d Printingmentioning

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Additive Manufacturing and Textiles—State-of-the-Art

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“…One industrial example of lattice structures in AM is 3D printed shoes [29,30], Figure 17 shows the Adidas Alphaedge 4D shoes currently available on the mass market, featuring a lattice structure on the sole of the shoe. Increasingly, these shoes are manufactured custom to a scan of the wearers' foot, meaning that each CAD model is different and will need to be sliced individually, resulting in overall very lengthy slice times.…”

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An efficient triangle mesh slicing algorithm for all topologies in additive manufacturing

King

Rennie

Bennett³

2020

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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To date, slicing algorithms for additive manufacturing is the most effective for favourable triangular mesh topologies; worst-case models, where a large percentage of triangles intersect each slice plane, take significantly longer to slice than a like-for-like file. In larger files, this results in a significant slicing duration, when models are both worst cases and contain more than 100,000 triangles. The research presented here introduces a slicing algorithm which can slice worst-case large models effectively. A new algorithm is implemented utilising an efficient contour construction method, with further adaptations, which make the algorithm suitable for all model topologies. Edge matching, which is an advanced sorting method, decreases the number of sorts per edge from n total number of intersections to two, alongside additional micro-optimisations that deliver the enhanced efficient contour construction algorithm. The algorithm was able to slice a worst-case model of 2.5 million triangles in the 1025s. Maximum improvement was measured as 9400% over the standard efficient contour construction method. Improvements were also observed in all parts in excess of 1000 triangles. The slicing algorithm presented offers novel methods that address the failings of other algorithms described in literature to slice worst-case models effectively.

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“…The additive manufacturing industry has been expanding its scope of application [1], from the manufacturing industry to the biomedical [2,3,4], agricultural [5], composites [6], aerospace [7,8], and fashion industries [9,10], as a next-generation growth engine that will lead to industrial innovation and creative economy vitalization [11]. The additive manufacturing market is growing explosively because of the development of related technologies and the efforts of companies to innovate and catch up with the rapidly changing tastes of consumers.…”

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Development and Evaluation of Fall Impact Protection Pads Using Additive Manufacturing

2019

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This paper presents the development and evaluation of fall-impact protection pants for elderly women using additive manufacturing. The protective pants were designed incorporating a protective pad in the hip area to reduce the impact of falls on the human body. The protective pad is a 3D mesh structure with a curved surface to fit the human body. Pads printed with flexible thermoplastic polyurethane were combined with foam to create the final pad. The impact-absorbing performance of the pad was verified through physical impact experiments. When dropping a bowling ball onto the protective pad from heights of 15, 20, and 25 cm, the protective pad was found to reduce the impact force by more than 82% in all cases. The impact force was less than the average fracture threshold of 3472 N. A subject group and an expert group evaluated the appearance, pad characteristics, motion functionality, and the wearability of the protection pants. Despite the insertion of a pad, the pants appeared natural and had a good fit. The pads were evaluated as being well-designed in terms of their position, shape, area, thickness, weight, flexibility, ease of insertion, and ease of use. Users were comfortable performing various motions when wearing the designed protective clothing. Therefore, this work can be considered to have developed protective clothing that provides satisfactory impact-protection performance and comfort thereby advancing the possibility of applying additive manufacturing to the creation of functional garments.

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3D-printed apparel and 3D-printer: exploring advantages, concerns, and purchases

Cited by 35 publications

References 19 publications

Additive Manufacturing and Textiles—State-of-the-Art

Additive Manufacturing and Textiles—State-of-the-Art

An efficient triangle mesh slicing algorithm for all topologies in additive manufacturing

Development and Evaluation of Fall Impact Protection Pads Using Additive Manufacturing

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